Hey all!

My name is Saurabh Jamadagni and I am a Junior in college from India. I'll be contributing to the Scribe-iOS project under the mentorship of Andrew. 

My tasks for the duration of my contributing period will be to create an application menu based on the design files of Scribe. Currently, the mobile app only consists of two pages with the core functionality. The Scribe codebase has received a lot of changes in the past few months. These have brought in new exciting features and a comprehensive menu will allow the users to select their preferences in a more user friendly manner. The second part of my project will be to add new languages to the Scribe keyboard. As Scribe is a keyboard application for language learners, the scope to expand the offerings is huge. By working on this project I will be able to contribute in bringing more languages to Scribe using the abundant Wikidata data stores.

To talk about my likings outside programming, I play badminton and am part of my college team. I also love tinkering with water colours and painting! I am so excited to be a part of the community (even just being a part of this email thread is thrilling haha). I would like to thank all the Org Admins and my mentor for a smooth application process. You have been immensely helpful!

Looking forward to a great summer and beyond with you all :)

Warm Regards,

Saurabh

On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 7:35 PM Sohom Datta <dattasohom1@gmail.com> wrote:

Congratulations and welcome, looking forward to seeing you guys around in Wikimedia :) 

Regards,

Sohom Datta

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Open-source contributor @Wikimedia

On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 9:54 AM Nikhil <nik.xyz.in@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings,
I would like to introduce myself as Nikhil Mahajan from India, currently a sophomore at IIT Roorkee. I am enthusiastic about software development and have been actively involved as a software developer at the coding club at my college. Some of my noteworthy projects can be found on my Github profile.
My journey into the world of open source began through GSoC, and I made my first contribution to MediaWiki. I was thrilled to see my first patch get merged and it gives me a boost to make more contributions. During my exploration of MediaWiki, I came across an interesting project called "Abstract Wikipedia". The GSoC project is about writing end-to-end tests for different critical user journeys in Wikifunctions. These tests will run against any patch review. The tests fail if the patch introduces changes that break down any of the user journeys. This will help avoid merging the patches that mistakenly introduce bugs into the project
Initially, I faced some difficulty in understanding the concept of "zobject" in the Abstract Wikipedia project. However, my mentor, @stef, helped me to gain a clearer understanding of the project.
Although my university exams have kept me away from making contributions for a while, I am now keen to contribute to the project.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,
Nikhil Mahajan

On Tue, 9 May 2023 at 16:53, Vasanth Gopa <gopavasanth1999@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello folks,

Please join us in welcoming Wikimedia's accepted candidates for Google Summer of Code 2023 [1] and Outreachy Round 26 [2]!

*Google Summer of Code 2023*

   1.  Ahmed Amine Hassou, Morocco, Wiki Education Dashboard: Refactoring and upgrading React <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332976>
        Mentors: Sage Ross

   2. Chenhao Liu, United States of America, Wiki farm support for Canasta <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333773>
        Mentors:  Yaron Koren, Jeffrey Wang

   3.  Nikhil Mahajan, India, End-to-end test coverage for Abstract Wikipedia's Wikifunctions <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333498>
        Mentors: Stef Dunlap, James Forrester, Cory Massaro, Denny Vrandečić

   4.  Zexi Gong, China, Wikidocumentaries to import images from the web to Structured Data on Commons <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332671>
        Mentors: TuukkaH, Susannaanas

   5.  Shashwat Khanna, India, Improve Programs & Events Dashboard UX for Article Scoped Programs <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332932>
        Mentors: Sage Ross

   6.   Saurabh Jamadagni, India, Adding a menu to Scribe-iOS application and expanding keyboard languages <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333156>
         Mentors: Andrew McAllister

   7.  Ritika Pahwa, India, Commons Android app: Make upload more reliable <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332126>
        Mentors: Nicolas Raoul, Kaartic Sivaraam

   8.  Punith Nayak, India, Improve the functionality of VideoCutTool - New features <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330465>
        Mentors: Gopa Vasanth, Sohom Datta

   9. Varun Shrivastava, India,  Improve the functionality of VideoCutTool - Code Quality/Code Health <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333466>
        Mentors: Gopa Vasanth, Sohom Datta

*Outreachy Round 26*

   1.  Nathaly Toledo, Venezuela, Research imbalances in translation between languages on Wikipedia <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333792>
        Mentors: Adam Wight, Kavitha A, Simulo

   2.  Abhishek Bhardwaj, India, Research imbalances in translation between languages on Wikipedia <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333097>
        Mentors: Adam Wight, Kavitha A, Simulo

   3.  Sulagna Saha, Bangladesh, Write a Ruby gem for analyzing Wikidata edits <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333790>
        Mentors: Sage Ross, Will Kent

We would like to encourage accepted candidates to introduce themselves on this thread and give a brief overview of the project they will be working on.

We’re so proud of the contributions they have made so far to our community, and we look forward to having a wonderful time working with them over the
summer. Also, a huge shout-out to the project mentors for their enthusiasm and commitment!

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2023
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_26

Regards,
GSoC / Outreachy Wikimedia organization administrators (Gopa, Sohom, Srishti)